WEB SITE AT: http://utenti.lycos.it/tolerance
Coordinating school:
ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO 2 - Suzzara, Mantova - Italy
Participating schools:

• Gutenbergschule - Karlsruhe - Germany
• Teinå Skole - Stavanger - Norway
• Collège Emile Zola - Wattrelos, Lille - France
• IES Ramon Casas I Carbò - Palau de Plegamans - Spain

Prejudice permeates the lives of children. Seven-year-olds make generalizations about fat or short people. Eight-year-olds have an uncanny knack for spotting anyone who looks different from them often commenting loudly on their appearance. Ten-year-olds make quick assumpions about the kid with the buck teeth or the thick glasses.
Kids make judgments not because they are bigoted or spiteful but because they are trying to make sense of the world. They naturally make associations between how people look and what they are like, especially if those associations are emphasized in books, movies and TV as a kind of cultural shorthand. The pretty blond girl is popular, the African-American kid is good at basketball etc. Only when kids feel threatened or powerless do their judgments turn hostile and take on a sense of superiority. Also at this age children become extremely concerned with justice and fairness.
We start from this assumption, exploring prejudice and stereotyping and trying to make children aware that prejudiced language or humor is not to be tolerated and that, living together we will learn from each other the best of our cultures.

The first year of the project the Gutenberg Werkrealschule was the coordinating school. From March 1999 Suzzara school leads the project.
Suzzara's team: Ms. Chiara Azzoni (coordinator of the project), Ms. Graziella Seveso (interpreter and language coordinator), Mr. Guido Belletti (online projects coordinator) and Mr. Wainer Melli (headmaster in charge of the whole project).